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Food and Abuse

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Excessive food consumption, leading to an epidemic of overweight and obesity, is the most serious public health problem facing the USA and is one of the top modifiable determinants of health. It shares many of the characteristics of substance abuse. Current conservative therapies have poor outcomes. Alternative approaches are needed to combat this expensive and deadly disease. Reframing the obesity issue from the addiction perspective may lead to new treatment paradigms. A solution that integrates public health approaches, environmental modifications, corporate and individual responsibilities is recommended to modify this significant behavioral determinant of health.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA

    Ike Eriator M.D., M.P.H. & Xiaoli Dai M.D.

  2. University of Mississippi School of Medicine, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA

    Efosa Ogiamien B.S.

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  1. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University Interim Hospital, and Ochsner Kenner Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Eriator, I., Ogiamien, E., Dai, X. (2015). Food and Abuse. In: Kaye, A., Vadivelu, N., Urman, R. (eds) Substance Abuse. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1951-2_7

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